Vegetable Pad Thai Calories

Ramona French

About the Author:

Ramona French

Ramona French owned a massage school and taught massage for 28 years. In that time she wrote textbooks on Swedish, acupressure, deep tissue and lymph drainage massage. She is the author of "Introduction to Lymph Drainage Massage" and "Milady's Guide to Lymph Drainage Massage." Her book, "The Complete Guide to Lymph Drainage Massage," published by Milady, was released in October 2011.

Pad Thai is a quick stir-fried noodle dish sold in small restaurants and street carts all over Thailand. It is a good vegetarian dish as you can substitute soy sauce for the fish sauce and add tofu for protein, rather than shrimp or chicken.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrient database, adding together all the ingredients and dividing by four, this soup has 238 calories in each of 4 servings, 11 g of fat, 29 g carbohydrates and 7 g protein.

Restaurant Pad Thai

Pad Thai served in restaurants may not be as healthy as homemade pad Thai. A restaurant serving of vegetable Pad Thai can have 800 calories, 32 g protein, 19 g of fat and 2,505 mg of sodium per serving, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Considerations

Restaurants typically serve larger portions than you would at home, and they use more oil and seasonings, including salt, to make food richer and more appealing. To control calories when you eat vegetable pad Thai in a restaurant, eat only half the amount served and ask the restaurant to use less oil when stir-frying the ingredients.